X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory

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HEAD Innovation Prize

2024-01-11

Recipients:Timothy R Kallman (662), Javier A Garcia (662)

Tim Kallman and Javier Garcia (662) have been awarded the 2024’s AAD HEAD Innovation Prize! They share the award with Thomas Dauser “for the development of novel models to describe emission in the strong gravity regime from accreting compact objects.”
The HEAD Innovation Prize

Excellence in Mentoring

2023-01-01

Recipients:Kimberly A Weaver (662), Jeremy David Schnittman (663)

NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal (Group)

2022-01-01

Recipients:X-ray Quantum Calorimeter (XQC) Payload Team (662)

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

2022-01-01

Recipients:Edmund Hodges-Kluck (662), Gregory Olmschenk (667)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Technician

2022-07-13

Recipients:Travis James Coffroad (662)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

2022-07-13

Recipients:Sibasish Laha (661), Maurice A Leutenegger (662), Tonia Moira Venters (661)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Leadership

2022-07-13

Recipients:Jonathan P Gardner (665), Kimberly A Weaver (662)

The Bruno Rossi Prize

2022-03-01

Recipients:NICER Mission (662)

The top prize in high-energy astrophysics has been awarded to the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) team for the instrument and the revelations it is producing about the physics of neutron stars and their environments.

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Service Medal

2021-01-01

Recipients:Michael F Corcoran (662), Antonella Nota (660)

NASA Honor Award - Distinguished Service Medal

2021-01-01

Recipients:Joan Centrella (660), Caroline Anne Kilbourne (662)

HEAD Innovation Prize

2022-01-01

Recipients:Keith A Arnaud (662)

The HEAD Innovation Prize recognizes the development of foundational, innovative and/or revolutionary instrumentation or software tools that have led to groundbreaking results in high-energy astrophysics. The 2022 Innovation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Keith Arnaud (GSFC and the University of Maryland) “for continuous innovation in developing and maintaining XSPEC, the X-ray spectral fitting package, which has become the world standard for analysis of spectra from X-ray and Gamma-ray missions.”

Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit

2021-01-01

Recipients:Keith C Gendreau (662)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Engineering Teams

2020-01-01

Recipients:Resolve Instrument Flight Hardware Deliveries (662)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

2020-01-01

Recipients:Simon Richard Bandler (662), Emily Gilbert (667)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2020-09-29

Recipients:Zaven Arzoumanian (662), Veselin Kostov (665)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal

2020-09-29

Recipients:Tomomi Watanabe (662)

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Achievement Medal

2020-09-29

Recipients:Brian J Williams (662), Tom Essinger-Hileman (665), Joshua E Schlieder (667)

GSFC Honor Award - Science

2019-01-01

Recipients:Petrus Michael Bult (662), William W Zhang (662), Jeremy David Schnittman (663)

GSFC Honor Award - Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit

2019-01-01

Recipients:Caroline Anne Kilbourne (662), Eli Dwek (665)

AAS Fellows

2020-02-25

Recipients:Alice K Harding (663), Sangeeta Malhotra (661), Maxim L Markevitch (662), John C Mather (660), William D Pence (662), Tod E Strohmayer (662), Jean Hebb Swank (662), Kimberly A Weaver (662)

The Fellows program of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, was established in 2019 to honor members for their contributions toward the AAS mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe. The following members of ASD were honored among the first group of AAS Fellows, announced Feb. 25:

Edward Cheng
Alice Harding
Sangeeta Malhotra
Maxim Markevitch
John Mather
William Pence
Tod Strohmayer
Jean Hebb Swank
Kimberly Weaver

John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

2019-12-11

Recipients:Keith C Gendreau (662), Zaven Arzoumanian (662)

Drs. Keith Gendreau and Zaven Arzoumanian are the joint winners of the 2019 John C. Lindsay Award for Space Science. Keith and Zaven are being recognized for their development of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) instrument, and the revelations of the physics of neutron stars and their environments that NICER is producing. Keith is the PI of NICER and Zaven is the Deputy PI.

IRAD Innovator of the Year

2019-10-01

Recipients:William W Zhang (662)

Goddard’s Office of the Chief Technologist has named astrophysicist William Zhang as IRAD (Internal Research and Development) Innovator of the Year, an honor the office bestows annually on individuals who demonstrate the best in innovation.

Chosen because of his foresight, perseverance, and leadership, Zhang spent nearly two decades advancing the state-of-the-art in X-ray optics. He and his team ultimately succeeded in their years- long endeavor, creating a new type of optic, made of mono-crystalline silicon, an abundantly available material commonly used to manufacture computer chips.

ASD Peer Award

2019-07-23

Recipients:Jenna Ballard (660), Thomas Barclay (667), Sean C Blumberg (660.2), Daniel Ilao Dizon (662), David P Friedlander (660.2), Jeanette Alexandra Kazmierczak (660), Samuel J Moseley (662), Elmer H Sharp (665), Jennifer J Wiseman (660)

Congratulations to this year's ASD Peer Award winners: Jennifer Ballard, Thomas Barclay, Sean Blumberg, Ruth Carter, Daniel Dizon, David Friedlander, Jeanette Kazmierczak, Samuel J. Moseley, Elmer Sharp, Teresa Sheets, and Jennifer Wiseman.

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

2019-06-01

Recipients:JWST Optical Independent Verification Team (Charles Bowers/667) (667), NICER Instrument Development Team (Keith Gendreau/662) (662)